This coming year marks the 75th anniversary of The Frick Collection, the beloved museum housed in one of New York City’s remaining Gilded-Age mansions on Fifth Avenue. To celebrate this milestone, the Frick has created an entirely new visitor education film, which replaces a seventeen-year-old production. The film will air daily, three times every hour. […]

Visit the old Wyckoff Farmhouse Museum to see the home of Pieter and his wife Grietje built and passed onto eight generations of their descendants over 350 years, now the oldest house in New York City, and learn about the early Dutch colony and about the farmhouses of Kings County. Lucie Chin, Senior Docent at […]

Deborah Cullen, the director of curatorial programs at El Museo del Barrio presents a tour of the exhibit Nexus New York – Latin/American Artists in the Modern Metropolis. The exhibition is for their grand reopening, celebrating their 40th anniversary and presents Latin-American and Spanish-Caribbean artists who were in New York in the early 20th century […]

Deborah Krohn, co-curator of this exhibition at the Bard Graduate Center titled Dutch New York Between East and West: The World of Margrieta van Varick, takes SundayArts on a tour of her favorite parts of the exhibit, including the history of Margrieta van Varick, a Dutch woman who was born in 1649, and her favorite […]

For the Solomon R Guggenheim Museum‘s 50th anniversary, former director Thomas Krens spoke with SundayArts. Wright’s design of the Guggenheim stands out as one of the most iconic buildings of the 20th century, and his signature style continues to be celebrated today. Krens discusses Wright’s influence, as well as his unrealized projects, such as city […]

Slash: Paper Under the Knife at the Museum of Art and Design explores the international phenomenon of cut paper in contemporary art–showcasing the work of artists who reach beyond the traditional role of paper as a neutral surface to consider its potential as a medium for provocative, expressive, and visually striking sculpture, installation, and video […]

Hanging Fire is the first U.S. museum exhibition to focus on contemporary art from Pakistan. Representing the current energy, vitality, and range of expression in Pakistan’s little-known yet thriving arts scene, the exhibition comprises nearly 50 works by 15 artists, and includes installation art, video, photography, painting, and sculpture. Curated by Salima Hashmi—one of the […]

Chief Curator at the Museum of Arts & Design David McFadden explains the new exhibit, the first of its kind, a gathering of over 200 of Madeline Albright’s personal pins and brooches that she has worn throughout her career as a diplomat titled “Read My Pins.” See the highlights and hear Madeline Albright explain the […]

The American craft tradition didn’t just appear one day, fully-formed and mature. Whatever their materials – no matter how “cutting edge” – every artist can trace her or his work to craft techniques that had their beginnings hundreds, even thousands, of years ago. When they are manifested and revealed to us they’re sometimes easy to […]

Saint-Gaudens is considered Americas premier sculptor of the 19th and early 20th centuries and created many of the public monuments honoring Civil War heroes in major cities throughout the United States. The story of his personal life is woven around in-depth studies of six of his major works of art. In this clip from “Augustus […]

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SundayArts is made possible in part by First Republic Bank and by the Rubin Museum of Art. Funding for SundayArts is also made possible by Rosalind P. Walter, The Paul and Irma Milstein Foundation, The Philip & Janice Levin Foundation, Elise Jaffe and Jeffrey Brown, Jody and John Arnhold, and The Lemberg Foundation. This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. Additional funding provided by members of THIRTEEN.